women’s history

Become a Patron! Our sources for this episode include: Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World, Essays elited by Christopher A. Faraone & Laura K. McClure [...Read More...]

In our last few episodes on sex workers in ancient Greece, we tried to paint a picture of a group of women, in some cases, with more freedom and independence than most in the [...Read More...]

The symposia–all-male drinking parties–were the playground and hunting ground of Athens’ elite courtesans. But they had their dangers, too. Join us as we [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Our sources for this episode include: Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World, Essays elited by Christopher A. Faraone & Laura K. McClure [...Read More...]

The conventional wisdom is that sex workers in ancient Greece were divided into two main categories: pornai who were enslaved in brothels, and hetaerae, who were elite [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Our sources for this episode include: Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World, Essays elited by Christopher A. Faraone & Laura K. McClure [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Our ancient sources for this episode include: Plutarch’s On the Bravery of Women (Loeb Classical Library edition) Cassius Dio’s Roman History [...Read More...]

In our last episode, we alluded to the fact that there were female as well as male Druids in the Celtic iron age. But if the picture of male Druids is spotty, the picture of [...Read More...]

After the disaster at Actium, Marc Antony’s entire army–100,000 strong–surrendered to Octavian. Marc Antony and Cleopatra fled to Alexandria to negotiate [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! We hope you enjoyed that as much as we did. This is a great time to check out The Exploress! Here’s a VERY amusing subreddit and also a Twitter account [...Read More...]